Christy Malone has been pretty busy for a “stay-at-home” mom. In 2008, she franchised the southeast Michigan “mom-to-mom sale,” a six-hour resale extravaganza scheduled for DeVos Hall this year on Sept. 15. She also started a Smart Bottoms cloth diaper business featuring an organic cloth diapering system, sold from her home in Grand Rapids. That business has grown to sales in several major national retailers, and Malone no longer had time to coordinate West Michigan’s biggest “yard sale,” aka West Michigan Mom’s Show.

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